News

Hillary pens the last word in scandal

THE first lady watched as Bill Clinton was sworn in for a second term. With pursed lips the chief justice, William Rehnquist, told the president coldly: “Good luck. You’ll need it.”

Hillary Clinton warned her husband as he waved to the crowds: “They’re going to screw you on the Paula Jones case.” She was right: the second half of Clinton’s presidency was mired in financial and sexual scandals, resulting in impeachment hearings.

Now a senator for New York, Hillary has a career of her own and presidential ambitions. She has a past, too, which she is hoping to settle with the publication of her memoirs, Living History, next month.

She received an $8m advance for the book that she intends to be her last word on the Whitewater affair, Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky before her reincarnation as a White House contender in 2008.